Eye-tracktive: Measuring Attention to Body Parts when Judging Human Motions

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2015
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The Eurographics Association
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Virtual humans are often endowed with human-like characteristics to make them more appealing and engaging. Motion capture is a reliable way to represent natural motion on such characters, thereby allowing a wide range of animations to be automatically created and replicated. However, interpersonal differences in actors' performances can be subtle and complex, yet have a strong effect on the human observer. Such effects can be very difficult to express quantitatively or indeed even qualitatively. We investigate two subjective human motion characteristics: attractiveness and distinctiveness. We conduct a perceptual experiment, where participants' eye movements are tracked while they rate the motions of a range of actors. We found that participants fixate mostly on the torso, regardless of gait and actor sex, and very little on the limbs. However, they self-reported that they used hands, elbows and feet in their judgments, indicating a holistic approach to the problem.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:egsh.20151009
, booktitle = {
EG 2015 - Short Papers
}, editor = {
B. Bickel and T. Ritschel
}, title = {{
Eye-tracktive: Measuring Attention to Body Parts when Judging Human Motions
}}, author = {
Ennis, Cathy
and
Hoyet, Ludovic
and
O'Sullivan, Carol
}, year = {
2015
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISBN = {}, DOI = {
10.2312/egsh.20151009
} }
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